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  "Breaking of bread," in remembrance of the dying love of Christ, a Gospel institution. Five sermons. In which the institution is explained; a general observance of it recommended and enforced; objections answered; and such difficulties, doubts, and fears, relative to it, particularly mentioned, and removed, which have too commonly discouraged some from an attendance at it, and proved to others a source of discomfort, in the regard they have endeavoured to pay to it. / By Charles Chauncy, D.D. Pastor of the First Church of Christ in Boston.
  Date of publication:
  1772
  

  Author(s):

  Chauncy, Charles, 1705-1787.
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  Half-title: Dr. Chauncy's five sermons.
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  1784. CONVENTION between His most Christian Majesty and the thirteen United States of North America, for the purpose of determining and fix­ing the functions and prerogatives of their respective Consuls, vice-Con­suls, Agents and Commissaries.
  Date of publication:
  1788
  

  Author(s):

  France. ; Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826. ; United States. Treaties, etc. France. and United States. Congress (1st, 1st session : 1789). Senate.
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  The English texts of the treaties between France and the United States of 1784 and 1788, printed in parallel columns. Issued without title page; title taken from opening lines of text. Prepared by Thomas Jefferson for the ...
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  [A complete body of the laws of Maryland]
  Date of publication:
  1700
  

  Author(s):

  Maryland.
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  The only known copy, held by the Library of Congress, lacks the title page and all pages after 188, and is otherwise imperfect. Title and imprint supplied by Wroth.
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  [Blank] judge of the probate of wills and for granting letters of administration on the estates of persons deceased ... I do by these presents commit unto you full power to administer all and singular the goods, chattels, rights and credits of [blank] said deceased ... In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of the said Court of Probate. Dated at [blank] aforesaid, the [blank] day of [blank] anno Domi. 1700.
  Date of publication:
  1700
  

  Author(s):

  Massachusetts.
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  Place of publication supplied by Bristol.
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  [Conscience the best friend upon earth ... ]
  Date of publication:
  1699
  

  Author(s):

  Stubbes, Henry, 1606?-1678.
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  The only known copy, held by the John Carter Brown Library, is imperfect. Title and imprint supplied by Bristol. Not in Wing.
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  [Daily meditations: or Quotidian preparations for and considerations of death and eternity begun July 19. 1666. By Philip Pain: who lately suffering shipwrack, was drowned.]
  Date of publication:
  1682
  

  Author(s):

  Pain, Philip, d. 1668? ; Johnson, Marmaduke, d. 1674. and Raleigh, Walter, Sir, 1552?-1618.
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  The only known copy, held by the New York Public Library, lacks the title page. Tentatively identified as the 1682 "second edition" recorded as Evans 327. Title supplied from the 1670 edition (Evans 153). Samuel Green is ...
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  [God's mercy surmounting man's cruelty, exemplified in the captivity and redemption of Elizabeth Hanson, wife of John Hanson, of Knoxmarsh at Keacheachy, in Dover township, who was taken captive with her children, and maid-servant, by the Indians in New-England, in the year 1724. : In which are inserted, sundry remarkable preservations, deliverances, and marks of the care and kindness of Providence over her and her children, worthy to be remembered. / The substance of which was taken from her own mouth, and now published for a general service.]
  Date of publication:
  1728
  

  Author(s):

  Hanson, Elizabeth, 1684-1737. and Bownas, Samuel, 1676-1753.
  Description:
  Attributed to Samuel Bownas by Evans. The only known copy, held by the Huntington Library, lacks title page and p. 37-40. Title page transcription based on an advertisement in the Pennsylvania gazette, Dec. 24, 1728.
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  [Terribilia Dei. Remarkable judgements of God, on several sorts of offenders, in several scores of instances; among the people of New-England. Observed, collected, related, and improved; in two sermons, at Boston-lecture in the month of July 1697]
  Date of publication:
  1697
  

  Author(s):

  Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728.
  Description:
  Running title: Remarkable judgments of God, related and improved. The only known copy, held by Harvard University, lacks title-page. The supplied title is taken from the reprint in Mather's Magnalia Christi Americana ..., ...
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  [The sincere convert, discovering the small number of true beleevers, and the great difficulty of saving conversion. ...]
  Date of publication:
  1664
  

  Author(s):

  Shepard, Thomas, 1605-1649. and Greenhill, William, 1591-1671.
  Description:
  Preface signed: W. Greenhill. Title and imprint from Evans. The only known copy, held by the American Antiquarian Society, lacks p. [1-6], 1st count, p. 9-12, 89-108, 153-156, and all after p. 184. Errors in paging: p. ...
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  [The] Winter evenings amusement, or, Jovial companion. Containing a choice collection of songs, much admired. And sung at most genteel places of amusement.
  Date of publication:
  1795
  

  Author(s):

  Unknown author
  Description:
  Contains 18 songs (all indexed). The only known copy, held by the John Carter Brown Library, lacks p. 11-12; title page mutilated.
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  A battle! A battle! A battle a squirt, where no man is kill'd, and no man is hurt! To the tune of Three blue beans, in a blue bladder; rattle bladder rattle. : To which is added, The Quaker's address, and the School-boy's answer to an insolent fellow who accus'd him of stealing his cherries. : [Six lines of quotations]
  Date of publication:
  1764
  

  Author(s):

  Unknown author
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  Ascribed to the press of Anthony Armbruster by Evans. With a half-title. "King Wampum. Or Harm Watch, harm catch. And the Lord departed from Is---l, and behold He went a whoreing after his own invention until his abominable ...
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  A bill for establishing religious freedom, printed for the consideration of the people.
  Date of publication:
  1779
  

  Author(s):

  Virginia. General Assembly. and Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826.
  Description:
  The earliest known version of the bill, as drafted by Thomas Jefferson. Imprint supplied by Evans.
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  A bill for establishing the Constitution, of the state of South-Carolina.
  Date of publication:
  1777
  

  Author(s):

  South Carolina. General Assembly.
  Description:
  Incorrectly dated 1787 by Evans, due to a typographical error in the British Museum Catalogue.
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  A bill for the government of the Navy of the United States. 23d January, 1799, read the first and second time, and committed to a committee of the whole House, on Monday next. : (Published by order of the House of Representatives.)
  Date of publication:
  1799
  

  Author(s):

  United States. Congress (5th, 3rd session : 1798-1799). House.
  Description:
  Parentheses substituted for square brackets in title transcription. Ascribed to the press of William Ross by Evans.
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  A bill to amend an act, intituled, "An act to promote the progress of useful arts.
  Date of publication:
  1791
  

  Author(s):

  United States. Congress (1st, 3rd session : 1790-1791). House. and United States. Act to promote the progress of useful arts.
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  Caption title. Introduced in the House of Representatives at Philadelphia, Feb. 7, 1791. Incorrectly dated 1790 by Evans.
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  A blow at the root of the refined antinomianism of the present age. Wherein that maxim, which is so absolutely essential to their scheme, that it cannot subsist without it, laid down by Mr. Marshall, viz. That in justifying faith, "we believe that to be true, which is not true before we believe it," thoroughly examined: Mr. Wilson's arguments in its defence, considered and answered; and the whole antinomian controversy, as it now stands, brought to a short issue, and rendered plain to the meanest capacity. / By Joseph Bellamy, A.M. Minister of the Gospel at Bethlem, New-England. ; [Four lines from Isaiah]
  Date of publication:
  1763
  

  Author(s):

  Bellamy, Joseph, 1719-1790.
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  (Evans-TCP ; no. N07313) Transcribed from: (Readex Archive of Americana ; Early American Imprints, series I ; image set 9339) Images scanned from Readex microprint and microform: (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 9339)
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  A bomb thrown amongst the Quakers in Norwich, which will reach their Friends in Bristol, and set fire no [sic] the combustible matter thorow [sic] their whole camp in England, Wales and America.
  Date of publication:
  1704
  

  Author(s):

  Bugg, Francis, 1640-1724?
  Description:
  Caption title. Signed on p. 2: Francis Bugg. Imprint supplied by Evans. Printed in two columns.
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  A brief account of a religious scheme, taught and propagated by a number of Europeans, who lately lived in a place called Nisqueunia, in the state of New-York, but now residing in Harvard, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, commonly called, Shaking Quakers. / By Valentine Rathbun, Minister of the Gospel. ; [Two lines from Proverbs] ; To which is added, A dialogue between George the Third of Great-Britain, and his ministers; giving an account of the late London mob, and the original of the sect called Shakers. ; The whole being a discovery of the wicked machinations of the principal enemies of America.
  Date of publication:
  1782
  

  Author(s):

  Rathbun, Valentine, b. 1724.
  Description:
  "A dialogue, between George the Third of Great-Britain, and his ministers ..."--p. [27]-36, with separate title page.
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  A brief account of some Lent and other extraordinary processions and ecclesiastical entertainments, seen last year at Lisbon. In four letters to an English friend. / By George Whitefield, late of Pembroke College; and Chaplain to the Right Hon. the Countess of Huntingdon.
  Date of publication:
  1755
  

  Author(s):

  Whitefield, George, 1714-1770.
  Description:
  (Evans-TCP ; no. N05985) Transcribed from: (Readex Archive of Americana ; Early American Imprints, series I ; image set 7590) Images scanned from Readex microprint and microform: (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 7590)
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  A brief account of some of the late sufferings of several Baptists inhabiting in New-London County in Connecticut Colony in New-England: who for no other cause than going to a meeting of their own society, were taken up on the King's Highway, and cruelly whipt at Norwich, July 26th. 1725. : Being also a reply to a small pamphlet lately put out by Joseph Backus, Esq; as he calls himself: in which pamphlet the author hath industriously laboured to deceive the world, and hide the cruelty of that matter; as also to promote persecution &c. All which deceit and false covering is here discovered, and a true and impartial relation of that matter given. / By John Rogers. ; [One line from Job]
  Date of publication:
  1726
  

  Author(s):

  Rogers, John, 1674-1753.
  Description:
  The pamphlet by Joseph Backus to which this is an answer was printed in 1726, probably at New London. Imprint suggested by Johnson.
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  A brief account of the deluded Dutartres; extracted from a sermom [sic], preached by the Rev. Mr. Alexander Garden, A.M., at Charlestown, in South-Carolina.
  Date of publication:
  1762
  

  Author(s):

  Garden, Alexander, 1686-1756.
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  "A narrative of the life, together with the last speech, confession and solemn declaration, of John Lewis ..."--9, [1] p., 2nd count (Evans 9157). "A plain address to the Quakers, Moravians ... on immediate impulses and ...
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  A brief account of the epidemical fever which lately prevailed in the city of New York; with the different proclamations, reports and letters of Gov. Jay, Gov. Mifflin, the Health Committee of New York, &c. upon the subject. : To which is added, an accurate list of the names of those who have died of the disease, from July 29, to Nov. 1. / By M.L. Davis.
  Date of publication:
  1795
  

  Author(s):

  Davis, Matthew L. (Matthew Livingston), 1773-1850. ; New York (State). Governor (1795-1801 : Jay). ; Pennsylvania. Governor (1790-1799 : Mifflin). and New York (N.Y.). Committee of Health.
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  (Evans-TCP ; no. N21690) Transcribed from: (Readex Archive of Americana ; Early American Imprints, series I ; image set 28538) Images scanned from Readex microprint and microform: (Early American imprints. First series ; ...
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  A brief account of the occasion, process, and issue of a late trial at the assize held at Gloucester, March 3. 1743,4. between some of the people call'd Methodists, plaintiffs, and certain persons of the town of Minchin-Hampton, in the said county, defendants. In a letter to a friend. / By George Whitefield, A.B. late of Pembroke-College, Oxford. ; [Fourteen lines from Acts]
  Date of publication:
  1744
  

  Author(s):

  Whitefield, George, 1714-1770.
  Description:
  (Evans-TCP ; no. N04453) Transcribed from: (Readex Archive of Americana ; Early American Imprints, series I ; image set 5518) Images scanned from Readex microprint and microform: (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 5518)
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  A Brief account of the rise, progress, and present state of the paper currency of New-England. And of the measures taken by the Massachusetts province, for establishing a silver currency for the future. : Together with some proposals for rendering those measures more effectual.
  Date of publication:
  1749
  

  Author(s):

  Unknown author
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  (Evans-TCP ; no. N05017) Transcribed from: (Readex Archive of Americana ; Early American Imprints, series I ; image set 6292) Images scanned from Readex microprint and microform: (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 6292)
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  A brief account of the state of the province of the Massachusetts-Bay in New-England, civil and ecclesiastical. By a lover of his country.
  Date of publication:
  1717
  

  Author(s):

  Pemberton, Ebenezer, 1672-1717. and Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728.
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  Reprinted in: Sermons and discourses on several occasions ... by Ebenezer Pemberton, London, 1727. Erroneously attributed to Cotton Mather by Evans.
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  A brief and general account of the life of the Reverend Mr. Geo. Whitefield, from his birth, to his entering into holy orders. / Written by himself.
  Date of publication:
  1740
  

  Author(s):

  Whitefield, George, 1714-1770.
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  (Evans-TCP ; no. N03771) Transcribed from: (Readex Archive of Americana ; Early American Imprints, series I ; image set 4626) Images scanned from Readex microprint and microform: (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 4626)
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  A brief and plain essay on God's wonder-working providence for New-England, in the reduction of Louisburg, and fortresses thereto belonging on Cape-Breton. : With a short hint in the beginning, on the French taking & plundering the people of Canso, which led the several governments to unite and pursue that expedition. : With the names of the leading officers in the army and the several regiments to which they belonged. / By Samuel Niles. ; [Six lines of quotations]
  Date of publication:
  1747
  

  Author(s):

  Niles, Samuel, 1674-1762.
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  In verse. Half-title: Mr. Niles's essay on God's wonder-working providence for New-England, in the reduction of Louisbourg, &c.
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  A brief and true narrative of some remarkable passages relating to sundry persons afflicted by witchcraft, in Salem Village: which happened from the nineteenth of March, to the fifth of April, 1692. / Collected by Deodat Lawson.
  Date of publication:
  1692
  

  Author(s):

  Lawson, Deodat.
  Description:
  (Evans-TCP ; no. N00488) Transcribed from: (Readex Archive of Americana ; Early American Imprints, series I ; image set 613) Images scanned from Readex microprint and microform: (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 613)
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  A brief ansvver to a small book written by John Norcot against infant-baptisme. This answer is written by John Eliot for the sake of some of the flock of Jesus Christ who are ready to be staggered in point of infant-baptisme by reading his book.
  Date of publication:
  1679
  

  Author(s):

  Eliot, John, 1604-1690.
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  Signatures: A^8(-A1) B^8.
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  A brief answer to two papers procured from Friends in Maryland, the one concerning Thomas Budds favouring John Lynam, &c. the other concerning his owning George Keith's principles and doctrines.
  Date of publication:
  1692
  

  Author(s):

  Budd, Thomas, d. 1698.
  Description:
  Caption title. Signed on p. 4: Thomas Budd. Dated of publication from colophon. Ascribed to the press of William Bradford by Evans.
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  A brief apology in behalf of the people in derision call'd Quakers. Written for the information of our sober and well-inclined neighbours in and about the town of Warminster in the county of Wilts. / By Will. Chandler, Alex. Pyott, Jo. Hodges. And some others. ; [Three lines from 2 Corinthians]
  Date of publication:
  1719
  

  Author(s):

  Chandler, William. ; Pyot, Alexander, d. 1696. and Hodges, Joseph.
  Description:
  Signed on p. 104: William Chandler, Alexander Pyot, Joseph Hodges, &c. Error in paging: p. 66 misnumbered 65.
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  A brief catechisme containing the doctrine of Godlines [sic], or of living unto God. / By John Norton, teacher of the church at Boston in New-England.
  Date of publication:
  1660
  

  Author(s):

  Norton, John, 1606-1663.
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  (Evans-TCP ; no. N00032) Transcribed from: (Readex Archive of Americana ; Early American Imprints, series I ; image set 63) Images scanned from Readex microprint and microform: (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 63)
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  A Brief discourse concerning regular singing, shewing from the Scriptures, the necessity and incumbency thereof in the worship of God.
  Date of publication:
  1725
  

  Author(s):

  Thacher, Peter, 1677-1739, dedicatee.
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  Dedicated to the Reverend Peter Thacher.
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  A brief discourse concerning the lawfulness of worshipping God by the Common-Prayer. Being in answer to a book, entituled, A brief discourse concerning the unlawfulness of the Common-Prayer worship. Lately printed in New-England. : [One line from I Corinthians]
  Date of publication:
  1712
  

  Author(s):

  Williams, John, 1636?-1709.
  Description:
  Attributed to Williams in: Watt, Robert. Bibliotheca Britannica, 1824.
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  A brief discourse of justification. Wherein this doctrine is plainly laid down according to the Scriptures. : As it was delivered in several sermons on this subject. / By Samuel Willard, teacher of a church in Boston. ; [Ten lines of quotations]
  Date of publication:
  1686
  

  Author(s):

  Willard, Samuel, 1640-1707.
  Description:
  Signatures: A^8(-A1) B-L^8. Error in paging: p. 147 misnumbered 247.
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  A brief dissertation on the three first chapters of Genesis. Giving some of the evident signatures of the inspiration of God in those first pages of the holy oracles. : Being the substance of some sermons lately preached / By Dr. Colman. ; [One line from John]
  Date of publication:
  1735
  

  Author(s):

  Colman, Benjamin, 1673-1747.
  Description:
  Half-title: Dr. Colman's dissertation on the three first chapters of Genesis.
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  A brief enquiry into the reasons why the people of God have been wont to bring into their penitential confessions, the sins of their fathers and ancestors, in times long since past. Preached on a day of general prayer and fasting, March 22. 1716. / By Benjamin Colman.
  Date of publication:
  1716
  

  Author(s):

  Colman, Benjamin, 1673-1747.
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  (Evans-TCP ; no. N01516) Transcribed from: (Readex Archive of Americana ; Early American Imprints, series I ; image set 1801) Images scanned from Readex microprint and microform: (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 1801)
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  A brief examination of the practice of the times, by the foregoing and the present dispensation: whereby is manifested, how the Devil works in the mystery, which none can understand and get the victory over but those that are armed with the light, that discovers the temptation and the author thereof, and gives victory over him and his instruments, who are now gone forth, as in the beginning, from the true friends of Jesus, having the form of godliness in words, but in deeds deny the power thereof; from such we are commanded to turn away. ; [Six lines of Scripture texts]
  Date of publication:
  1729
  

  Author(s):

  Sandiford, Ralph, 1693-1733.
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  Attacking the slave trade and slavery in America. Dedication signed: Ralph Sandiford. Ascribed to the press of Franklin and Meredith by Miller.
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  A brief exhortation to all who profess the truth, to come clear out of Babylon, and not to joyn with any hurtful or unseemly practice, nor make marriages with unbelievers, but be a seperate [sic] people from every unclean thing, that God may receive you.
  Date of publication:
  1691
  

  Author(s):

  Willsford, John.
  Description:
  Caption title. "Written, the 4th of the 2d moneth, 1691. John Wilsford [i.e., Willsford]."--p. 11. Imprint supplied by Evans.
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  A brief exposition, of the leading principles of a bank. Humbly submitted to the consideration of the Honourable the legislature of Maryland.
  Date of publication:
  1795
  

  Author(s):

  McHenry, James, 1753-1816.
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  Attributed to James McHenry by Evans.
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